[al-Qurʼān].
[القرآن].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Shore, Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless, 1863-1922, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Qurʼan.

قرآن.

Language:

Arabic

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Col. Offley Shore.

Gift of Offley Shore.

Physical Description:

477 leaves : paper ; 295 x 185 (212 x 106) mm bound to 295 x 195 mm.

Place of Publication:

[between 1830 and 1899?]

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Qur'ān; complete except for first folio.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

First folio missing; first full āyah is verse 12 in Sūrat al-Baqarah (2:12).

Foliation: Western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto (not visible in images); catchwords on every verso, lower left.

Layout: 11 long lines, border-ruled.

Manuscript is in poor condition; many leaves are loose; binding is off; worm damage; water and fire damage throughout.

Script: Written in naskh using black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Decoration: Readings in red, sūrah titles rubricated and framed; gold roundels at end of each verse; gold roundels outlined in black double line with a black vertical line underneath accompanied by a red letter ʻayn in margins to indicate rukuʻ. Juzʼ markers in red ink in margins; gold non-circular medallions indicating other text partitions. Some decorations finished by another hand; textblock border-ruled in red; page openings framed in faded black.

Binding: Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); headband in black and brown thread; seperate marbled paper pastedowns inside both covers; detached reddish textile wrapper; blind stamped and gilded mandorlas on front and back covers with four pendants along vertical axis and cornerpieces; covers are badly water and fire damaged.

Origin: Likely copied in South Asia in the mid- to late-19th century; machine made paper.

Cited as:

UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 1897.

OCLC:

1059578305

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